Just wondering what your least favorite Religion is. Mine is the one that is currently doing more to promote bigotry, oppression of women, misogyny, religious war, intolerance, brainwashing, and terrorism in the name of God. I think it's disgusting when people will oppress other people because they believe something different about this invisible God.
If God is invisible and chooses to hide himself and remain silent (which he does), He's asking for there to be division! So let people believe what they want to!!
If God were to be visible, all believers would have to do would consist of living a life similar to watching a movie. But "FAITH" requires more than what the eye can "see;" more than the ear can "hear;" and more than the mind can "Dream."
Faith is comprised of belief; activity motivated by that belief; and emotion driven by that faith.
I know that the faith I belong to (Catholicism) has been quite guilty of that as well, and I find it disgusting. It is the Church of latter day sinners. The Church is made up of sinners and that is what sinners do is sin.
"I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners" Luke 5:32. I've been very hurt by the Church. Many have. I follow my heart over any Dogma...and the God of the Bible isn't the God I know.
"They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me."(John 16:2-3)
Catholicism has done more world-hurt than any other religion ever known to Man, even more than Islam, because it did not cease for centuries. At least Islam gets beaten, and retires every few centuries or so.
I was raised Catholic, loved it so much I was ready to be martyred if called upon to do so. But God called me to another way, a way of truth, and I have been free of the errors of Catholicism for over 65 years. I still remember that love, though,. because it was based upon the understanding of a child, and a child can be led to many things not believed upon growing to adulthood.
The Jesuits were the priests that taught me most of what I knew before moving on into study of scripture. But the Inquisition straightly constrains John 16:2-3 that goes beyond a simple argument over faith. It becomes a matter of life and death between two of God's children who simply had a difference of understanding beyond their own control or desire. They were taught as a child. Some never get over it.
